Dimensional Descent

Maybe when someone learned that they secretly had a great background, they would be ecstatic. All their worries and hardships would now be coming to an end and they could finally live out a life of peace.

However, this wasn't how Leonel reacted in the slightest.

The first thing he thought of when he learned the truth was the number of people who had died when the Metamorphosis began.

No, died wasn't the proper term. They had been sacrificed. For the sake of having an easier path of development and having less Invalids to deal with, these people had been discarded like trash by this Emperor that also happened to be his grandfather.

Leonel didn't particularly feel abandoned by his grandfather either. Another human reaction would be to feel as though his existence had been ignored for so long. If his grandfather knew he had another grandson, why didn't he come into contact with him sooner? But, once again, Leonel didn't feel like this.

Leonel could tell from all the clues that his father likely originated from a higher Dimensional world. If he couldn't piece this together, then whatever worth his calculative mind had would be next to zero.

Due to understanding this, he knew that the relation between his family members was likely quite strained and odd. By convention, a son-in-law should respect his father-in-law, but it was difficult to do so if the son-in-law's standing was so much higher.

Things might be fine if Gervaise Fawkes was a normal man, but he was the Emperor of maybe the most talented fledgling world in existence. He was used to lording over people and having unmatched status, so what kind of oddities would it cause if his daughter suddenly married someone above him?

The first thought that someone would have in this situation was that Emperor Fawkes might use the Morales Clan to climb to a larger stage. But, judging by his father's demeanor, Leonel could tell that he actually had respect for his grandfather.

likely meant that not only did his grandfather likely have a demeanor that at the very least treated Leonel's father as an

treat a core member of the Morales Clan in

was so powerful that even an infant could likely eradicate a Fourth Dimensional world on its own,

understood the odd

the way of this, he would have simply contacted Leonel after his father had left. Leonel wasn't a fool, since his father could leave both of the family's heirlooms with him, it meant that his standing in the Morales family wouldn't be small in the future

up to this man he had been indoctrinated to worship since his

in the latter's eyes. It didn't seem to

as he met Leonel's look. There was no pleading, no smugness, no expectation. He was simply there. It seemed that whether Leonel chose to cripple him or kill him right then and there, he

panicked again seeing that Leonel hadn't

know that she was related to

This was the only

truly hadn't known about Aina, the Emperor never said anything about her to them. They were only aware of Leonel's appearance here due to Emperor Fawkes in the first place.

feeble and Jessica knew

Leonel, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't have made a move anyway. And, beyond that, this was more than just a matter of attacking a perceived enemy, it was also about attacking someone who

like he had against Leonel, it was unlikely that City Lord White would have been defeated if not for Aina. So,

wasn't aware that Aina was the reason they had won the battle. That

enough